Author: Randall Ross

Randall Ross will not rest until Shreveport is universally recognized as the Design Capitol of the Ark-La-Tex. He and his wife Molly McCombs do their part by selling rare and unusual design books to an international client base via their modernism101.com website. He spends his copious free time hunting for books, researching and recording the modernist heritage of Caddo Parish, restoring his midcentury dream house and really trying to teach those damn dogs to not jump on the guests.

Featured photo: Ladies and Gentlemen, start your scanners. The fragile peace is about to be shattered — the center cannot hold — in the final seconds before the opening of “largest used book store in Louisiana,”…

Editor’s Note: Guest blogger Randall Ross, proprietor of rare book store Modernism101.com, has blogged for 20×49.com on topics including architecture and public art. His latest post is about a popular local event, the annual Centenary…

As part of the New Deal of 1933, the Public Works Administration (PWA) authorized and financed construction of over 1,700 Public Building projects between 1933 and 1939. The ideology behind this massive building boom was…